Christopher Pyne Quotes

He's being held in residential surveillance, which we would normally describe as home detention ... my understanding is it's in Beijing.

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• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• It's healthy to have interests besides books.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Books
  • Healthy
  • Besides

• Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Power
  • Focus

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Today

• I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Leave

• Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Government
  • Step

• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Me
  • Action
  • Sin

• Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • You
  • See

• I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Know
  • Anger

• Within the horizon of this western myth, love is understood as the artificial restraining of our natural impulses toward unbridled aggression.

  

  Sam Keen

• I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

  

  Benjamin F. Wade
  • Men
  • May
  • Fall

• Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Up
  • Work
  • Stop

• Spend time with your family and try to spend time doing things that you enjoy doing other than basketball.

  

  Elena Delle Donne
  • Time
  • Family
  • Basketball

• Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Live
  • Song

• Manchester City, the club and the fans, they were amazing. But I'm sorry, the city wasn't that nice. I was all the time at home, and I didn't enjoy it. It was raining all the time. I was a little bit upset.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Time
  • Home
  • City

• Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls And darkness fall "I rubbed my temples, feeling a headache coming on."A for effort, ladies, but F for clarity. You do realise that your wierd poem things never explain anything".

  

  Kiersten White
  • Home
  • Fall
  • Effort

• The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Up
  • War
  • Fun

• Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Real
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• For me,it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. Rang De Basanti made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me,a confidence so strong,that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood.

  

  Vir Das
  • Believe
  • Revolution
  • Movies

• He's being held in residential surveillance, which we would normally describe as home detention ... my understanding is it's in Beijing.

  

  Christopher Pyne
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